In February 2002, we became the first winery in South America to earn a double ISO certification: ISO 9001:2000 for our quality assuring procedures and ISO 14001:1996 for our environmental policies. Both these credentials required our production systems to rise to the level set by the International Standards Organization, and are annually certified by the German company TÜV Rheinland.
During the last trimester of 2009, with the aim of verifying and certifying the winery’s carbon footprint, along with assuring transparency, strength and accuracy to the calculation, Cono Sur’s Sustainable Development Department put together a multidisciplinary team in charge of implementing ISO 14064:2006. This new norm specifies the principles and requirements for designing, developing, reporting and managing GHG’s inventories at the organizational level, as well as demanding the establishment of annual reduction objectives, and their permanent improvement.
